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"X Disease" Identified
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EW cattle disease, brought to
public attention during the summer,
was first reported by Drs. Peter
Olafson '26, head of Pathology and
Bacteriology; and Myron G. Fincher
'20, Professor of Veterinary Medicine
and head of the Department. The report
was made at a Veterinarians'
Conference held on the Campus in
January, 1942.
Known as "X disease" when it first
appeared in 1941, the malady is now
designated "Hyperkeratosis" because
of a skin thickening around neck and
shoulders which is one of its symptoms.
Affecting both dairy and beef
cattle, the new disease is considered a
potential danger to national milk and
meat supplies, though outbreaks have
been only sporadic to date.
A recent survey conducted in five
states by the U. S. Bureau of Animal
Industry indicates that fifty-nine
per cent of infected cattle die from the
ailment, but there is no evidence that
the disease is spread by contact or
other means. Cause and effective
treatment are being investigated here.
Foreign Women Here
Λ MERICAN Home Economics As-
•*"*• sociation Scholarships of $400
have helped bring two graduate
women to the University this year
from almost opposite ends of the
earth. Susan V. Holmes of Wellington,
New Zealand, is here for a year's
study of the public health aspects of
nutrition and Mrs. Francine Van de
Putte Gilles of Brussels, Belgium, is
studying child training in the College
of Home Economics.
Mrs. Gilles, whose husband is
also studying in the United States
this year, when she was twenty,
during the war, organized and managed
single-handed a home for sixty
children of Trooz, Belgium, whose
parents were war casualties or prisoners.
She evacuated her charges to
Brussels, and by her calmness and
initiative is reported to have prevented
panic in Trooz when the town
was being severely bombed. After
her year at Cornell, she will return
to Belgium to take charge of government
training of home-maker's helpers
to assist hard-pressed farm families.
Miss Holmes, who also holds a
School of Nutrition scholarship, graduated
at Otago University in New
Zealand during the war and came to
America from England where she had
been studying dietetics and working
as a public health nutritionist. She
intends to continue work in that field
after her year here.
Tenth and largest scholarship fund
raised by the State Federation of
192
Home Bureaus for grants to students
in Home Economics preparing for
work in the Extension Service is the
sum of $5,000 for an Eliza Keats
Young Scholarship. It is named for
the third president of the Federation,
who lives in Milton.
Additional gifts of $1,000 this year
will start a fund to support Eliza
Keats Young Fellowships for foreign
women who come to the College for
short periods. First to receive this
Fellowship is Nancelle C. Cossus,
from France, who came in November
for three months as part of her study
of home economics education and
extension work in the United States.
She also has a grant from the Milbank
Foundation.
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Alumni Elected
OURTEEN Cornellians will be
members of the New York State
Assembly for the session which convenes
in Albany in January, as a result
of the November elections.
Re-elected this year for his eighth
term is Wheeler Milmoe '17 of Canastota;
Lawrence W. Van Cleef '20 of
Seneca Falls begins his seventh term;
Harold L. Creal '19 of Homer, sixth
term; John R. Pillion '24 of Lackawanna
and John F. Wadlin '24 of
Highland, fifth terms; Joseph W.
Ward '13 of Caledonia, fourth term;
and David S. Hill, Jr. '26 of Glen
Cove, third term.
Besides Ray S. Ashbery '25 of
Trumansburg, former Alumni Field
Secretary of the University, alumni
newly-elected to the Assembly this
year are Henry D. Covilie '93 of Central
Square, Joseph R. Younglove '16
of Johnstown, Searles G. Shultz '20 of
Skaneateles, Vernon W. Blodgett '22
of Rushville, J. Eugene Goddard '23
of Rochester, and Samuel Rabin (Rabinowitch)
'26 of Jamaica.
John D. Bennett '33 of Rockville
Centre was re-elected for a third term
in the State Senate.
Re-elected also was State Senater
George T. Manning of Rochester,
whose wife was Catherine Maloney '2
and Willard C. Drumm of Niverville,
newly-elected to the Assembly, is the
husband of Eva Peplinski '23.
All Cornell legislators and the two
husbands are Republicans.
Re-elected to Congress are Republicans
Daniel A. Reed '98 of Dunkirk,
for his sixteenth consecutive term and
Clarence E. Kilburn '16 of Malone
and Edwin A. Hall, Jr.'31 of Binghamton
for their sixth terms. Frank L.
Sundstrom '24 of Montclair, N.J.,
running for his fourth term in Congress,
was defeated by his Democratic
opponent.
G. Mennen Williams, Democratic
Governor-elect of Michigan, is the son
of Mrs. Henry P. Williams who shared
with her brother, William G. Mennen
'08, in giving Mennen Hall to the University.
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Army Wants Officers
OMMISSIONS as second lieutenants
in the Army Reserve are
offered by the Department of the
Army to men who had a least a year
of active duty in the ranks during
World War II and have taken two
years or more of college work. The
Army needs 16,000 junior officers immediately,
and two years of active
duty will be required of all who accept
commissions under the new program.
Preliminary training will be
given.
Alumni who are interested may get
further information from any Army
recruiting station.
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Senior Societies Elect
ENIOR honor societies elected
fifteen members of the Class of
'49 in November. Quill and Dagger
added seven men to its roster and
Sphinx Head elected eight. One of the
newly-elected Seniors is the son of a
Cornellian.
Sphinx Head
John S. Dana, Rochester; Chemical
Engineering; J-V basketball; Delta Upsilon.
Peter J. Jung, Forest Hills; Electrical
Engineering; secretary of Infraternity
Council; Freshman Camp counselor; Chi
Phi.
Thomas J. Kane, Ithaca; Arts; coach
150-pound football, Glee Club, Book and
Bowl.
Christus J. Larios, Kingston; Civil
Engineering; secretary of Student Council,
secretary Class of '48, Lambda Chi
Alpha.
John E. Rupert, Lakewood, Ohio;
Arts; Freshman Class president, rowing,
Delta Kappa Epsilon.
John B. Story, Coal Run, Ohio;
Agriculture; rowing, Alpha Sigma Phi.
Coenraad H. H. Terkuile, Enschede,
Holland; Agriculture.
Stanton F. Weissenborn, Upper Montclair,
N. J.; Arts; 150-pound football,
lacrosse, Psi Upsilon.
Quill and Dagger
Bruce E. Care, Kenmore; Industrial
and Labor Relations; hockey, Lambda
Chi Alpha.
Paul C. Giralamo, Bronx; Agriculture;
football, Alpha Phi Delta.
James J. Jackson III, Woodbury,
N. J.; Mechanical Engineering; fencing,
Senior Class council, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma
Chi.
Gerhard Lowenberg, New York City;
Arts; associate editor, Cornell Daily Sun,
president of Telluride.
Stuart M. Paltrow, son of R. Harold
Paltrow '26 of Bay side; Industrial and
Labor Relations; Student Council, Cornell
Daily Sun, Phi Sigma Delta.
Daniel K. Roberts, Brooklyn; Mechanical
Engineering; president of Independent
Council.
John P. Seider, Richwood, N. J.;
Electrical Engineering; track and cross
country.
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